2006 New Hampshire Statutes - Section 259:3 Agriculture and Farming.

The words ""agriculture'' and ""farming'' mean all operations of a farm, including:
    I. (a) The cultivation, conservation, and tillage of the soil.
       (b) The use of and spreading of commercial fertilizer, lime, wood ash, sawdust, compost, animal manure, septage, and, where permitted by municipal and state rules and regulations, other lawful soil amendments.
       (c) The use and application of agricultural chemicals.
       (d) The raising and sale of livestock, which shall include, but not be limited to, dairy cows and the production of milk, beef animals, swine, sheep, goats, as well as domesticated strains of buffalo or bison, llamas, alpacas, emus, ostriches, yaks, elk (Cervus elephus canadensis), fallow deer (Dama dama), red deer (Cervus elephus), and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).
       (e) The breeding, boarding, raising, training, riding instruction, and selling of equines.
       (f) The commercial raising, harvesting, and sale of fresh water fish or other aquaculture products.
       (g) The raising, breeding, or sale of poultry or game birds.
       (h) The raising of bees.
       (i) The raising, breeding, or sale of domesticated strains of fur-bearing animals.
       (j) The production of greenhouse crops.
       (k) The production, cultivation, growing, harvesting, and sale of any agricultural, floricultural, forestry, or horticultural crops including, but not limited to, berries, herbs, honey, maple syrup, fruit, vegetables, tree fruit, flowers, seeds, grasses, nursery stock, sod, trees and tree products, Christmas trees grown as part of a commercial Christmas tree operation, trees grown for short rotation tree fiber, or any other plant that can be legally grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
    II. Any practice on the farm incident to, or in conjunction with such farming operations, including, but not necessarily restricted to:
       (a) Preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market, or to carriers for transportation to market of any products or materials from the farm.
       (b) The transportation to the farm of supplies and materials.
       (c) The transportation of farm workers.
       (d) Forestry or lumbering operations.
       (e) The marketing or selling at wholesale or retail, on-site and off-site, where permitted by local regulations, any products from the farm.
       (f) Irrigation of growing crops from private water supplies or public water supplies where not prohibited by state or local rule or regulation.

Source. RSA 259:1, II-a. 1957, 283:1. 1979, 60:2. 1981, 146:1; 1999, 191:3, eff. Sept. 4, 1999.